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Town refuses to fix these tennis courts. A full year passed without the school using these courts. Need a repair job stand unused due to poor maintenance.
Town refuses to fix these tennis courts. A full year passed without the school using these courts. Need a repair job stand unused due to poor maintenance.
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Doug Hardy, Journal Inquirer (Gast)
Hello ROC,
Are we talking about crack in the cement and weeds, or missing nets, or a combination of both?
ROC (Gast)
We're talking about enough problems that the town deemed the courts dangerous and closed them down last year. There is a good story here about how the town doesn't take care of it's facilities. Check out the Wapping Tennis courts too, they will be next.
Doug Hardy, Journal Inquirer (Gast)
Hi ROC,
There may be a story there at some level but this site isn't meant to be political per se. Let's try to solve the problem. Are the courts under the supervision of public works or the schools? If we can figure that out, I think we can find the right people to talk to.
It's possible that the maintenance of these courts was cut from the budget.
ROC (Gast)
Hi Doug,
I totally agree on this being a non-political tool. I see this being used by people like myself, reporting a need, and then watchers like you (great idea for JI to do this), to shed light, and perhaps even assist in the actions that need to be taken to fix the need.
These courts are really part of the middle school campus, but due to the setup in SW, they fall under public works.
The Recreation Dept. did their due diligence by closing them down, fearing someone would get injured. Then public works took a look at what it would take to fix them dollar-wise and came up 10K short.
That's where it stands now. In the meantime, a recreation asset is sitting idle, the middle school can't use them, tennis players in town can't use them, and we're heading into fall, so in all likelihood, another year will pass by.
That's the basis of what I'd see for a story in the JI, no fingerpointing, just informing people why they are closed and why they haven't been fixed.
Thanks!
Doug Hardy, Journal Inquirer (Gast)
Fair enough, ROC, and thanks for the support here.
I'm not sure if a story in the paper would solve the funding issue. Sounds like the decision was made by someone who has to balance a budget.
Is there another solution here? Is the demand such that a fundraiser might accomplish the task? What about the high school tennis teams? Maybe they'd be willing to do a car wash or something...
I'll pass this on to the South Windsor reporter either way.
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Anonymous (Gast)
Any movement on the courts?
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